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My AC weighed a TON! I think the compressor bracket weighed as much as the compressor...it was the first thing to go.

Hey Terry! Thanks for the compliment! I like thread-jacking Phil's mod threads because he and I used to be mystery spook twins (I actually had some mondo fog lights like he did, but never put them on...), and then he sold out to his 280 guilt and had to build a 240z clone...so I built a road warrior as retaliation! Here that Phil, it's all your fault!

http://forums.hybridz.org/showthread.php?t=112218&highlight=operation+camo+zzzap

Man, there's always room! As seen here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=simzw9CiXjw

The people who make those movies are so hopelessly out of touch with the scene they are trying to exploit...I have a class at school with a guy that was a producer at EA when they were making Need for Speed: Underground, and the way he describes what he calls "tuner culture" was pretty funny. "...these idiots that go to other states to get rare car parts..." I was thinking: "I went to another state to get a car part once...too bad Need for Speed: underground was a terrible game!" As a side note, I also have an art class with the guy that did the computer model for the Godzilla that was featured in the Matthew Broderick version.

I still need to build an underscoop that will duct air up through the bottom of the intercooler (I've got the tray I'm going to use with the two air inlets, but that's as far as I've gotten). I pretty much mothballed it for the duration of my master's program, so I don't expect to see any progress until that's over. It's 16 months or so. I might end up being more of a neighbor than you'd think, evidently there is a lot of video game production being done in Austen, TX...

I think it needs some louvers and a whale tail (with the camo stripe continued on both), and maybe some ZG flares, then I'll be done with the outside for awhile.

One bigger pic, coming right up: It fits my hood fine, I've got no clearance issues at all

Phil, that looks really good! I bet it would look cool in satin black.. 2eightz4me, there's all kinds of creative ways to have a one-side-in-other-side-out intercooler on a z...as seen here on mine:

Make him watch American Pie...Jim's conversation with his dad on this subject was priceless...

I sold a set of those to Bradman-Q45, and they do look like westerns. I always called the turbines, but I think the real name might be cyclone. If you call them the turbines, people will know what you're talking about though.

Was "the stang" giving you the cold shoulder until you got a better job? That seems a little petty of her...

I was taking the Zzzap! over to a buddy's house to give him a ride shortly after I finished my turbo install. Two guys in a MkIII VW Golf that was painted rattlecan olive drab primer with the rusty hood look came zooming up next to me and I saw their heads whip around to check out my intercooler. I noticed that they had "rattlecan mafia" stenciled on the quarter panel, and I just had to laugh. I can only assume they ran up on me to appreciate my fine rattlecan spray job, but they were blocking the lane I need to be in in order to get off at the proper exit. I had to downshift into third and floor it so I could get around them, and they clearly weren't ready for that maneuver...the looks of astonishment were priceless, made moreso by the fact that they were in my rearview. That was the first time I'd actually seen that rusty hood thing besides the time Auxiliary posted it to the non-tech section that one time way back...

Dan, you're custom fabricating a new intake manifold, right? If it was me, I'd be tempted to run it like this: sorry about the pic, it's a touch pad mouse in mspaint, I don't have a scanner here at the apartment...

Dan, you taking notes on intake manifold designs?

I really hate those saudi driving videos. those guys are total a-holes (the drivers, not saudis in general) tearing around like that.

KTM, it's not as hard as you might think to do something like that. Just do the lightest color first, and build up. One of these days I'll take a better picture just of the tree (My car is parked in St. Pete at my grandfather's, I'll be living most of the week in Orlando, and spending weekends in Tampa with my wife) or I can scan in a drawing paint by number style so you can maybe do a template (this would work better on the Oni than the RS-III since they're pretty flat). Or if you want a different shape, maybe we can figure something out that would fit your build better than the tree. If you were local to me, I'd do it for you if you bought the paint, but being as you're on the other end of the country... Seeing as they're Onis, I'd be tempted to do like an Oni (minor demon, like an imp) face, or maybe a fox or something...

The tree was hand painted from three or four (don't recall) different colors of touch up paint while I was working at the Saturn parts department, if you can believe that. It looks better on the white ones than it does on the black ones (I did my rear wheels in black) in my opinion: In retrospect, I should have done the rear wheels in white, and the front in black so I wouldn't have to worry so much about brake dust, but I rarely drive the car, so it won't matter too much... If you do end up painting your center sections, be sure and have some vinyl Oni logos made up, otherwise people will just assume they are the S-A3As. For awhile I had mine graphite with a polished lip, and I hand cut the Impul Hoshino Racing RS-III logos out of reflective vinyl (think Stop sign lettering), but I got tired of it and wanted something a little more "out there" like the rest of the car. Then: Now: Definitely post pictures of those on the car once you get them ready, the Advan Oni is one of my favorite wheels of all time! By the way, you'll need spacers if you want those to fit on a Z with that offset.

I'm sure they just used either Bluebird drivetrain stuff or the Sunny Pulsar GTi-R stuff, but man that car was nasty!

I don't have Advans, but I DO have Impul RS-III's which are often mistaken for Advans. I took the bolts out, but the way mine are put together, the two halves of the lip sandwich the center section (hard to tell from your pictures, but the Onis appear to be the same...look at where the valve stem cutout is, and it will show you the various layers). There is an adhesive on the bead that keeps the pieces from leaking-in effect glueing the rim sections together, and I didn't take that off. I've found that when painting wheels, you can easily mask off the lip by just making a cylinder out of posterboard and resting it on the edge of the lip. I painted my MOMOs and my Impuls in this way. My Impuls had 12pt 8mm bolts, with 6pt 10mm nuts on the back, and aside from the torque needed to break them loose (I was worried about stripping the 12pt side, the bolts are all chromed and have "Impul" cast into the heads), I didn't have too much trouble...but there are 49 per wheel! PIA...I took the bolts out so I could paint the lips blue with the Dupli-color Metalcast paint. It looks pretty good, I think. The white is Duplicolor wheel paint, and I used their wheel clearcoat over the whole thing after I finished. And the MOMOs for good measure: Hope that was helpful. By the way, did you get your wheels off of eBay, or did you use the main website? They have all the eBay auctions on the site as well, and there are usually more photos on the website than the auctions...For the record, if that's the only picture you were given, that was VERY misleading!

My wheels came in looking just like the photos, I ended up repainting them because they needed it, but that wasn't rbmotoring's fault. I had no problems at all with their customer service or the product. I'm sorry you were disappointed with what you got, but brake dust comes off pretty easy, and as for the corrosion... Let's see the pictures they posted of the wheels, then show us what you got. I think that's only fair when stating something like that. They almost always detail the problem areas on their wheels, I'm sure to avoid situations just like this. For instance, here is a 15" Oni that's still for sale from the main www.rbmotoring.com site, and you can clearly see the rust on the bolts, and the scuffed finish on the spokes:

As seen on this classic thread: http://forums.hybridz.org/showthread.php?t=114800&highlight=vette+turbo

that photo was posted in one of the old OS giken threads by HS30-H himself, if I recall correctly. I think it might even have been the same thread that Alan posted the turbo LY engine towards the end... Here's the thread, looks like Alan emailed it to speeder, who then posted it up somewhere around page 2 or so... http://forums.hybridz.org/showthread.php?t=76847&highlight=os+giken *edit* I don't recognize either the username, or the car (might not be a "he" though, Lauren T and the Z to designate the car?). Definitely haven't seen too many Z's on white-stripe tires here in Tampa. I've always hated tamparacing and most of the people I see posting on there. I had a bunch of friends try and get me into it even back in my Honda days, and I hated it then too...

The jag SU's were 2" bore, compared to the 1.75" bore on the Z.